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WRITTEN ON Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Update. Here’s Sam’s widget which can embed a free, powerful and direct “voice” on public services for people in any web site. It’s such a powerful capability, it holds such potential that I laughed out loud in the shower thinking about it. We’ve got six months’ moderation funded. We can tag and sort the input, […]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, March 29th, 2009 BY David Moss AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Spy chiefs fear Chinese cyber attack. Do they?
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 BY David Moss AND STORED IN Uncategorized
He’s a hard taskmaster, that Wlliam Heath. Makes you read things. And think about them. Beast. Just look at this: At least the rapierist Sir David, whose hand lies behind we know not how much of this, has come out into the open about it. No alternative, had to read Sir David Omand GCB’s discussion […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, March 7th, 2009 BY David Moss AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Two articles for you to consider: 1. Think-tank urges Whitehall shake-up: The independence of the civil service has “become an excuse for zero accountability”, finds a report. A study by Reform noted that while senior bankers have been called to account, there had been much less scrutiny of the mandarins who failed to deliver the […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Hurrah! Rob Knight (whom we know from the very early days of IdealGov and the UK Feedback idea) has got into the idea of VRM and public services: Another body (or set of bodies) which would be affected by VRM is the government. We’re currently required to provide information to various government bodies and to […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, February 27th, 2009 BY Paul Smith AND STORED IN Uncategorized
The Department for Work and Pensions is covertly supporting Royal Mail and the Northern Irish economy, my colleagues at Government Computing weekly can reveal. A colleague’s brother recently signed on for Jobseeker’s Allowance for the first time. Attending Jobcentre Plus as instructed, he was asked to fill in forms to apply for the allowance, housing […]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, February 15th, 2009 BY David Moss AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Two letters in the Financial Times. Compare … National commissioner will not be ‘selling’ ID cards Published: February 9 2009 02:00 | Last updated: February 9 2009 02:00 From Meg Hillier MP. Sir, With reference to Sue Cameron’s Notebook (“Wanted: Champion earner for old rope”, February 4), the advertisement for the National Identity Scheme commissioner […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, February 13th, 2009 BY Paul Smith AND STORED IN Uncategorized
More feedback from the ground about top-down, centralised, one-size-fits all programmes to “computerise” the NHS. The Royal Free hospital in London – one of the initial pilot sites for the roll-out of patient records – tell us that the system didn’t work for them: and cost this one trust some £10m. Kable’s lead analyst on […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, January 31st, 2009 BY David Moss AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Thursday 29 January 2009, Manchester The Home Secretary visits Manchester to explain how useful ID cards will be: While in Manchester the Home Secretary visited Newall Green High School in Wythenshawe to meet young people who could be some of the first to be able to apply for cards from 2010. Together they discussed how […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, January 26th, 2009 BY Paul Smith AND STORED IN Uncategorized
As momentum continues to build for more and more centralised IT (check out the start of Contact Point), another significant move in the other direction appears on the horizon. A gathering of geeks is set to work out how to get data out of government and make it useful! It’s on March 7 in London […]
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